Sentences with phrase «brains of a particular size»

It includes the possibility that distinctive dominance of our own cerebral hemispheres is not, as previously suggested, just a side - effect that forces brains of a particular size to have particular proportions.

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It is widely accepted that brain size increase is partly linked to changes in diet over the last 3 million years, and increases in meat consumption and the development of cooking have received particular attention from the scientific community.

This particular roll of film contains 6000 slices, representing a speck of brain the size of a grain of salt.

Instead, it is the size of a particular part of the brain called the neocortex, which plays an important role in cognition, spatial reasoning and language.

Morton took detailed measurements of these skulls with a particular focus on cranial capacity, the skeletal equivalent of brain size [8]--[10].

Bishop's approach is to develop an injection to destroy particular cells in the hypothalamus, an area in the brain about the size of a pearl that controls reproduction in mammals.